Gas-burner



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Gas Burner.- No. 26.255. Patented Nbv. 2.9, 1859.

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SETH L. COLE, OF BURLINGTON, VERMONT.

GAS-BURNER.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 26,255, dated November 29, 1859.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SETH L. COLE, of Burlington, in the county of Chittenden and State of Vermont, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gas-Burners; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings of the same.

Figures 1 and 2 are different forms of the burner.

The burner is a cap made of brass or other metal, preferring the best conductor of heat where other things are equal. The lower part is formed into a straight, or slightly tapering socket, made to fit closely upon an ordinary burner such as the fish-tail burner. It may be modified so as to fit other burners, or to receive the gas directly from the pipe. The upper part is a hollow sphere, three quarters of an inch in diameter. The size may be varied as required, and the sphere may be flattened on the sides to a considerable extent, as in Fig. 2. Sufficient space must be left inside, however, above the burner, and in the globe of the cap, to heat and expand the gas, as it is on the point of escaping and being burned. The aperture for the escape of the gas is a narrow slot in the top of the sphere, and extending half way around it, and of the size of the aperture in an ordinary bat-wing burner.

The advantages of this invention consist, I apprehend, in the heating and expanding of the gas by means of the cap being heated. The consequence is, that as the gas escapes it is more readily permeated by the atmospheric air, and, for that reason and because of its being heated, it is more perfectly consulned. By placing a cap of this construction upon any other gas-burner, to which it can be fitted, the flame and light will at once be largely increased, though the supply of gas remains the same. At the same time less gas will be consumed by fifteen per 5 centum as the gas meter will show, and the blowing, as it is termed, which takes place in other burners is entirely prevented. I do not however claim this mode of application.

Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The construction from some good conducting material, as herein above set forth, of a gas burner, with an enlargement of the tube at the point where the gas is discharged and burned, in the form of a globe or the like, furnished with a slot aperture, as above described, so that the gas shall be heated to the utmost, at the point where it is consumed.

S. L. COLE. Witnesses G. S. BLoDeE'rT, A. N. FULLER. 

